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Otto Wagner
Otto Koloman Wagner (* 13. July 1841 in Vienna-Penzing; † 11. April 1918 in Vienna) was an austrian architect.
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1 Biography
2 Major Works
3 Weblinks
4 Literature
Biography
He studied in Berlin and Vienna. In 1864 he started building his first buildings in the historicism style. In 1884 he became a teacher at the school of architecture at the Vienna Academy of Fine Arts.
In the nineties of the the 19. century he built serveral building in Art Nouveau style. He was very interested in urban planning, in 1890 he designed a new city plan for Vienna, but only his urban rail network was built, the Stadtbahn.
In 1897 Otto Wagner, Gustav Klimt, Josef Olbrich, Josef Hoffmann and Koloman Moser founded the artist group "Vienna Secession".
Major Works
- Floodgate, Nussdorf near Vienna, built in 1894
- Viennese "Stadtbahn", metropolitan railway system (1894-1902);
- Majolikahouse, Vienna (1898-1899)
- Post Office Savings Bank Building in Vienna (1894-1902)
- St. Leopold Church "am Steinhof" (1903-1907).
- Synagogue in Budapest
Weblinks
Literature
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Modern Architecture: A Guidebook for His Students to This Field of Art (Texts & Documents) by Otto Wagner
Otto Wagner, Adolf Loos, and the Road to Modern Architecture by Werner Oechslin
Otto Wagner by Sol Kliczkowski
Otto Wagner/Gustav Klimt : Duets by Llorenc Bonet
Otto Wagner: Reflections on the Raiment of Modernity (Issues & Debates) by Otto Wagner
Otto Wagner (Stp) by Giancarlo Bernabei
Otto Wagner: Reflections on the Raiment of Modernity (Issues & Debates) by Harry Francis Mallgrave
R.M. Schindler: Architect, 1887-1953: A Pupil of Otto Wagner, Between International Style and Space Architecture by August Sarnitz
Modern Architecture: A Guidebook for His Students to This Field of Art (Texts & Documents) by Otto Wagner
Otto Wagner, Bd.2/1-2, Das Werk des Architekten by Otto Antonia Graf
Sketches, Projects and Executed Buildings by Otto Wagner
Ernst Lichtblau, Architekt, 1883-1963 : Gestell und Gestalt im Raum : Reflexion über ein Paradigma der modernen Architektur by August Sarnitz
Otto Wagner 1841-1918: The Expanding City, the Beginning of Modern Architecture by Heinz Geretsegger
Otto Wagner by Otto Antonia Graf
Die Kunst des Otto Wagner by Otto Wagner
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